{"id":35340,"date":"2010-02-24T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35340"},"modified":"2010-02-25T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:32:54","slug":"tolkien-reading-day-is-march-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/02\/24\/35340-tolkien-reading-day-is-march-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Reading Day is March 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Tolkien Reading Day was set up to encourage people to get together and explore some of Tolkien\u2019s stories at school, university, in reading groups, or as a family; the theme for 2010 is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> \u201cTolkien\u2019s Seafarers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading Day is an opportunity for people of all ages to read together and share their thoughts about the story. As 2010 is the International Maritime Organization\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Year of the Seafarer<\/strong> the theme chosen gives people a chance to read and think about exploring the undercurrents in the Numenorean romance the \u201c<em>Tale of Aldarion and Erendis<\/em>\u201d from \u201c<em>Unfinished Tales<\/em>\u201d, the journeys and ships of the Teleri, the flight of the Noldor, and the voyages of Tuor and Earendil in \u201c<em>The Silmarillion<\/em>\u201d, or Bilbo\u2019s poem about the latter in LotR. There are also the poems \u201c<em>The Happy Mariners<\/em>\u201d and at a pinch \u201c<em>Bombadil Goes Boating.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->Ideas for exploring Tolkien\u2019s books together are available online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/ed\/tolkienreadingday.html\">www.tolkiensociety.org\/ed\/tolkienreadingday.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s books appeal to all ages and readers worldwide find pleasure, entertainment and deep significance in his work.<\/p>\n<p>Reading together is fun, for both children and adults, and reading on a theme stimulates good conversation and vocabulary development. There is much more to Tolkien than \u201c<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u201d though as the list above shows. Families or library reading groups can enjoy these stories and poems or for the younger readers there are the travels and travails of the dog \u201c<em>Roverandom<\/em>\u201d which include a journey under the sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schools can contact the Society for education packs, bookmarks and posters. Members of the public, libraries, or reading groups wishing to hold an event near to rather than on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> can contact the Society for free posters to help with publicising their event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>e-mail\u00a0<strong>publicity AT tolkiensociety DOT org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2003 the reading day event has sparked interest in reading and reading groups across several nations and ages from Primary schoolchildren to University students and library users of all ages. Hence the circulation of this release to the media, educational press and county library services. 25<sup>th<\/sup> March has significance to Tolkien\u2019s readers, as it is the day of the Downfall o<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Reading Day was set up to encourage people to get together and explore some of Tolkien\u2019s stories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,197,91,152],"tags":[732,1113],"class_list":["post-35340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-events-other","category-tolkien","tag-tolkien-reading-day","tag-tolkien-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9c0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}